Luminary Micro / Jaguar

[utlinebacker]

My name is Scott Emley, and I am the product marketing manager at Luminary Micro. It was a pleasure seeing and meeting many of you during the KickOff in N.H. this past weekend! (brrrr!) I was just as excited as you were when the rules were announced. With the legalization of high-impacts and implementation of a "lunar" playing surface, I am sure glad we designed the Jaguar securely encased in industrial plastic and with the ability to handle finer (low-speed) control.

There is a bunch of new traffic on Chief Delphi, and most of my posts are buried in other threads, so I figured I would start a new one for reference.

Luminary Micro has partnered with Digi-Key to make available the new Jaguar (MDL-BDC) speed controller to all FRC teams! Of course, you have received a predetermined number of Jaguar speed controllers in your KoP distribution, and this program is designed to provide FRC teams exclusive access to additional speed controllers for a >30% discount to the normal resale price. The Jaguar discount program is only available to FRC teams and only through Digi-Key by visiting: http://sales.digikey.com/dkes/FirstR...ompetition.asp

To qualify for the discount, you must enter in your team information, a shipping address within the general geographical location (state/country) of your team, and you must enter a valid phone number so the FRC Order Team at Digi-Key can validate your identity and thus honor your discount request.

It is important you remember to use the Digi-Key link above – or you will be like the rest of the world and have to pay full price. Don’t be distracted because Luminary Micro has several worldwide distributors (including Digi-Key) that will be carrying the Jaguar at full price.

To answer a question that was asked on another thread: this is not a promotional discount, meaning (as an FRC team member or mentor) you will have access to this discount throughout the season.

By the way, Luminary Micro has unveiled the Jaguar to the rest of the world as a reference design, and now is a good time to remind teams that, while you might read or realize the full potential of the Jaguar on Luminary Micro’s website, the official FRC 2009 game rules (or restrictions for that matter) are now announced. More explicitly, I discourage you from monkeying with the firmware on the Jaguar ---- even though you might be tempted. (I'm an engineer... I understand this temptation.)

As far as documentation is concerned, please see the Jaguar Getting Started Guide on the Jaguar microsite at http://www.luminarymicro.com/jaguar. I'll keep referring to this site for the latest documentation regarding the Jaguar, so I encourage you to bookmark the link. It contains docs, the Jaguar reorder link, support links, and links back to Luminary Micro's main web page (we make lots more than Jaguars!).

Looking forward to supporting you guys this year. A few of us have been / will be monitoring the posts here as best we can.

Best Regards,
Scott

P.S. I thought it was cool that Team 47 sponsors this forum. I really like that number as you can tell!

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